Le mercredi 12 mai 2010 à 21:22 +0200, Marcus Better a écrit : > Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than > the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse > is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The > difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular. > > Shouldn't we provide a lower swappiness by default for desktop > installs, at least those with a fair amount of RAM? This could improve > the user experience on most modern desktop systems. Most users will > probably never find out to tune this on their own. Ubuntu recommends a > value of 10 for desktop systems [2, 3] (but ship with the default > value).
The bug has been reassigned to desktop-base, but I don’t think it is the appropriate place for that. How about setting this default in a new, specific package, and have the desktop environment metapackages recommend it? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1274783426.9909.17.ca...@meh
